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Kandy (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 07 17 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 7.2833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 080 40 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 80.6667 decimal degrees |
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Note: The site of Dalada Maligawa, the world's most sacred Buddhist temple, where Buddha's eyetooth is enshrined. The annual Esala Perahera, a high religious festival, occurs in July and August. Nearby Kandy are the Peradeniya Gardens, the pleasure site for Sinhala king. The majority of the population is Tamil. |
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| Kandy (preferred,C,V)
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| Senkadagala Mahanuwara (C,V)
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| City of the Five Hills (C,O)
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| Sacred City of Kandy (C,O)
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Kandy (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled since before the 5th cen. BC, when it became capital of the last independent Singhalese kingdom of Ceylon |
| town (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| capital (H) |
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last capital of ancient kings of Ceylon |
| royal residence (H) |
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to 1815 when Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe, the last king of Ceylon, was captured by the British |
| religious center (C) |
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center of Sinhalese Buddhism since ca. 300 BC |
| World Heritage Site (C) |
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Kandy .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Asia, Sri Lanka, Central) [8698212] |
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